NECRAT wrote:In one errie picture, you can see the sidemarker lights still lit on the one half tower.

In 1970, KFAB here in Omaha lost two of three towers to a tornado. Story was that when the engineer on duty couldn't keep the transmitter on he looked outside and there was a beacon flashing on the ground not too far from the back door. I don't know how long it took them to get back on the air but since they still had one complete tower an ATU was carted over to that tower to restore some level of service until the two downed towers could be replaced. (ATU had to be substituted because the standing tower was the one with normally the least antenna current so the ATU wasn't as beefy as the others.)

That surviving tower stood another 35 years or so until it was dismantled and replaced with a guyed tower like the other two were. All 3 had been Truscon self-supporting towers.